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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Perry in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.3211S, -97.5456WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003mu5. Unique identifier: us10003mu5. The temblor was reported at 05:27:13 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.11 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5456 West, latitude 36.3211 North, depth = 2.11 km. Global time and date of event 11/10/15 / 2015-10-11 10:27:13 / October 11, 2015 @ 10:27 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from The Village (c. 8 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Village, Cushing, Piedmont (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5456° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km W of Perry, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-11 10:27:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-11 10:49:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.05 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 213 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.397 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003mu5 Id of event.
Event Code 10003mu5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003mu5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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